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I don't need to keep the keys secret from anyone who runs a node. I just need to keep them secret from the very small number of people who understand the client code well enough to modify it without breaking it, and…

Small encrypted high value data sets are indistinguishable from addresses, and the keys would almost certainly be distributed out of band, so there is no way to distinguish such transactions in the block chain from…

Perhaps. I think it's in everyone's best interests that the Bitcoin vs. Government battle take place sooner rather than later. Having it happen years down the road is a very bad idea, especially given how usage and…

While some providers like Amazon and Mastercard have made a decision to decline a business relationship with Wikileaks, the government has not tried to cut off their connectivity, nor to expunge all copies of the…

The point I'm trying to make here is that on one hand, we have all these great theoretical ramblings of the robustness of Bitcoin, and "Proof of Work," and the massive amounts of computational resources it would take to…

I've been thinking about how we can build useful applications on top of Bitcoin. It reminds me of Ross Anderson's concept of the Eternity Service, which Adam Back once implemented with Perl on Usenet years ago. Usenet…

I think I just want to start over. But reinstalling Core doesn't change the error. Maybe I'll reinstall MacOS, which seems like overkill but I don't see another way to fix this right now. Thanks for the help.

OK I am able to run it this way thanks! But if I quit and try to start normally it throws same error. How can I fix this? I don't want to download whole thing and then have to do it again for some reason. BTW I see this…

Thanks, I tried it but no luck. I had actually deleted that whole folder when I tried to reinstall Bitcoin Core, so I moved it back from trash but no joy, same error message.

So, I'm trying to launch Bitcoin Core and I keep getting this error message: A fatal error occurred. Check that settings file is writable, or try running with -nosettings. Details: Error: Unable to open settings file…